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What’s spycial about cylinder?
This was triggered by a couple of those 1950s newsreel and educational films. Narrators in that era were tiresomely Grammatical and Enunciative. Every phoneme agreed with the dictionary. This film is about engines and this is about mimeographs. Both topics constantly mention cylinders. I would expect the Enunciators to say sillinder, but they said sellinder…
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